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enExhibit marks 20 years since Diana’s deathhttps://www.daily-review.com/lifestyle/exhibit-marks-20-years-diana%E2%80%99s-death
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.daily-review.com/sites/stmarynow.etypegoogle8.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/lifestyles_43.jpg?itok=Juv9HyhY"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.daily-review.com/sites/stmarynow.etypegoogle8.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/lifestyles_43.jpg?itok=Juv9HyhY" width="618" height="208" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>LONDON (AP) — London’s Buckingham Palace has unveiled an intimate tribute to Diana, the Princess of Wales, marking the 20th anniversary of her death.<br />
In one of the palace’s state rooms, curators have carefully recreated a desk the princess worked at in her sitting room at Kensington Palace, complete with family photos, cherished items and music cassettes. She wrote letters here, read briefings and took care of other correspondence.<br />
Many of the items shown on and around the desk were selected by her sons, William, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Harry.<br />
“It was chosen to reflect an aspect of Diana, Princess of Wales’ official duties. So the work that she would undertake at her desk before and after engagements,” said curator Sally Goodsir. “So, we’ve really tried to recreate her desk as it was in her sitting room at Kensington Palace. And using objects that she had upon her desk and from memories that her sons, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry have of her.”<br />
The desk features a leather frame which contains photographs of family and friends. There’s also a case of cassette tapes and a radio reflecting her love of music, along with her ballet shoes, which hung on the door of her sitting room at Kensington Palace.<br />
“Some of the pieces on display really reflect the princess’ personal interests,” said Goodsir. “These include her ballet shoes, she was well-known as a lover of dance, and then also her set of cassette tapes, popular music such as Elton John and George Michael, but also pieces from classical repertoire, including Pavarotti.”<br />
Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997.<br />
“It will be an important anniversary at the end of August, marking the 20th anniversary of her death,” said Goodsir.<br />
The tribute to Diana is part of Buckingham Palace’s annual summer opening, which also includes the exhibit “Royal Gifts,” a special display of more than 200 gifts presented to Queen Elizabeth II during her 65-year reign.<br />
The gifts include a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award presented to the queen in 2013 for her patronage of the film and television industries. Some items were presented to the queen during state visits and overseas tours, such as a model of a warrior presented in 1974 from Papua New Guinea, and a portrait of the queen made with woven banana leaves, given to her in Rwanda in 2006.<br />
“I’ve tried to display objects from as many countries as possible and really showcase national craftsmanship,” explained Goodsir.<br />
Other items reflect the queen’s interests, such as a bronze model of a riding horse she once owned and a porcelain model of her as a young princess on horseback.<br />
The palace’s 25th annual summer opening runs from now to Oct. 1.<br />
Also on display are a bag of salt presented to her in the British Virgin Islands and a flag worn by an astronaut during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station in 2016.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.daily-review.com/sites/stmarynow.etypegoogle8.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/lifestyles_42.jpg?itok=oa4gKywJ"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.daily-review.com/sites/stmarynow.etypegoogle8.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/lifestyles_42.jpg?itok=oa4gKywJ" width="618" height="208" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-dateline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">By GREGORY KATZ, The Associated Press</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>LONDON (AP) — It was a typical phone call between two boys and their mother, who was on vacation in France. It was brief — the boys wanted to get back to playing with their cousins, not spend time on the phone chatting.<br />
The brevity of that 1997 call haunts Prince William and Prince Harry to this day — for their mother, Princess Diana, would die in a car crash that night.<br />
“Harry and I were in a desperate rush to say goodbye, you know ‘see you later’... If I’d known now obviously what was going to happen I wouldn’t have been so blase about it and everything else,” William says in a new documentary. “But that phone call sticks in my mind, quite heavily.”<br />
Harry tells the filmmakers the final chat is something he will regret until the end of his days.<br />
“Looking back on it now, it’s incredibly hard. I’ll have to sort of deal with that for the rest of my life,” Harry said. “Not knowing that was the last time I was going to speak to my mum. How differently that conversation would have panned out if I’d had even the slightest inkling her life was going to be taken that night.”<br />
The ITV documentary “Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy” is airing Monday on British TV. Excerpts from the film, and new family photographs, were released Sunday.<br />
The show is one of a series of tributes to Diana expected as the 20th anniversary of her death on Aug. 31, 1997, approaches.<br />
It is only in the last year that William and Harry have spoken openly in public about their feelings about the sudden loss of their mother. William — second-in-line for the British throne after his father Prince Charles — was only 15 at the time. Harry was only 12.<br />
The documentary chronicles Diana’s charitable works, including her historic outreach to AIDS victims and her campaign to ban land mines.<br />
William and Harry also stress their mother’s fun-loving side, which they say the public generally didn’t see.<br />
“Our mother was a total kid through and through. When everybody says to me ‘so she was fun, give us an example,’ all I can hear is her laugh in my head,” said Harry.<br />
William tells a story that reveals the privileged life they led as children. One day, Diana surprised him by having three of the world’s top models waiting for him when he got home from school.<br />
“She organized when I came home from school to have Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell waiting at the top of the stairs. I was probably a 12- or 13-year-old boy who had posters of them on his wall,” William said. “I went bright red and didn’t know quite what to say. And sort of fumbled and I think pretty much fell down the stairs on the way up.”<br />
William says he frequently tells his children — Prince George, 4, and Princess Charlotte, 2 — about Diana so she can be a presence in her grandchildren’s lives.<br />
“She’d be a lovely grandmother. She’d absolutely love it, she’d love the children to bits,” he said.</p>
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